Doping : Sports, Organizations and Sciences, University of Lausanne

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About this Course

The objective of this course is to encourage a critical understanding of doping. To achieve this goal, this course will rely on a multidisciplinary approach that allow you to see how different disciplines get into a single object, in different perspectives and in often complementary ways. This approach will also allow us to appreciate the complexity of a subject like doping.
Doping in sports is a complex practice whose definition and identification is the result of socially and historically constructed norms.
This course offers to shed light on the processes that led to the use and prohibition of doping substances. Performance enhancement or physical transformation are two aspects of doping which are seen as problematic, yet even as we speak companies are making fortunes selling body improvement and other forms of “human enhancement” to us. These apparent contradictions will be analysed to show that beyond sanitary questions, doping raises many social, scientific and legal issues.
In efforts to control doping, governments and sports authorities have put into place institutions responsible for defining what falls into the category of doping, but also what prevention, repressions and research methods to put into effect. This course will also explore biological control measures such as the biological passport, key legal dimensions, organisations that produce performance, as well as the sociological dimensions of doping.
Besides the Professors of University of Lausanne, the best experts of doping are involved in this course: experts from an Anti-doping Laboratory (LAD- Lausanne-Switzerland), from the CAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport), from the UEFA (soccer), and from the WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency).
Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Q3eR_g7rU
Main Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course the participants will be able to :
1. Identify the “cultural” dimension of doping, that is as a historical practice linked to the transformation of social norms,
2. Go from a binary way of thinking - for or against doping - to an understanding of the complexity of this phenomenon which is biological, psychological and sociological, all at the same time,
3. Recognize the institutions, the actors and the practices of the fight against doping,
4. Explain how the social and organisational context influences individuals decisions and how this influence can be reduced by effective prevention measures,
5. Identify how the fight against doping is led and how testing is carried out....

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Nov 03, 2017

Doping explained from a different view point, through its history and the `why`, informing about behaviour. I enjoyed it and learnt a lot. Thank you very much.

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By JL

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May 11, 2018

I loved this course. It fed my existing knowledge on doping in sport and has since influenced my behaviour as a coach.

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By Emil

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Oct 27, 2018

This course is an attempt to bring back peoples trust to the corrupt international institutions.

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By Fridah G. Wambui Kariuki

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Oct 06, 2018

The course was very interesting and an eye opener as to what doping really is. I have learnt a lot.

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By CLAUDIO ARANGUEZ ARELLANO

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Sep 27, 2018

GOOD COURSE

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By Vinod Jacob

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Aug 18, 2018

An excellent course . I enjoyed learning anti doping. A well structured .

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By Guillem Palau Salvà

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Jul 30, 2018

The teacher has a rather strong french accent. Sometimes I need to look at the script because of this.

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By joanna laing

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May 11, 2018

I loved this course. It fed my existing knowledge on doping in sport and has since influenced my behaviour as a coach.

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By Christian Chavarro

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May 11, 2018

great course!

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By Dr Atwar hussain

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May 05, 2018

This was a great course, I am grateful to the professors in take their time and all the people involved to make it possible for us to have this course, and a special thanks to coursera to make it possible. If you want to know understand more on the inner functioning and protocols of how things work at the WADA labs, this is a must course to enrol in.

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By ketan jogadia

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Apr 29, 2018

good course to start with in Sports field . Thank you so much

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By Ross Ashcroft

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Apr 27, 2018

Fascinating information - from the history, to the sociology, to the legal framework and the science. It is a great course for anyone wishing to understand the bigger picture around doping and performance in sport